Anti-snoring device



(No Model.)

L. H. SHAW. ANTI-SNORING DEVICE.

No. 460,451. Patented Sept. 29, 1891.

Fla. 7.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LINUS H. SHAYV, OF BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ANTl-SNORING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,451, datedSeptember 29, 1891.

Application filed February 6, 1891. Serial No. 380,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, LINUs H. SHAW, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the city of Brockton, in the county ofPlymouth, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improved Anti-Snoring Device, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide means to be worn by personswhen sleeping to prevent snoring.

The means of this invention, and which for convenience is designated ananti-snoring device, consist, in substance, of a band to surround and tobe held on the neck of the person, a band to cross the front, and a bandto cross under, and each thereof to extend around the sidesof the chin,in combination with mechanism composed, essentially, of a semicircularframe, at its opposite ends pivoted to opposite sides of said neckbandand projected forward under the chin, a slide-bar at each end, held onand free to slide along said frame, and yielding spring-arms, one ateach side of the chin and both held on said slide-bar, and each at itsupper end portion having an arm pivoted thereon and to which saidchin-bands at their opposite ends are fastened, all substantially ashereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sideView of the antisnoring device of this invention and illustrated as inuse. Fig. 2 is a front View of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of thedevice.

In the drawings, A is the neckband.

B and O are the two chin-bands.

D is the semicircular frame.

E is the slide-bar, at its opposite ends held on and free to move alongthe frame D.

F F are the side spring-arms, held on said slide-bar, and G G2 arecrank-arms, each pivoted' to one of said side arms at its upper endportion, and to these armsthe opposite ends of the two chin-bands areattached.

The neckband A may be any band which is suitable to surround and to beheld on the neck without strain on or annoyance to the wearer-as, forillustration, a split springband of metal suitably covered or otherwiseprotected or the usual neckband of the nightgown, &c. The semicircularframe D at its opposite ends is hung on pivots a of said neckband andthence extends forward, so as, with the neckband in position on thewearer, to lie under and below the chin. The slide-bar E at its oppositeend portions has tubular blocks 1') b, which engage and so hold theslide-bar on and adapt it for movement along said frame D, and, again, His a rod that extends lengthwise along the upper side and is supportedin earpieces at d at each end portion of said slide-bar.

The spring-arms F F are on the opposite sides of the chin, one on eachside, and, as particularly shown, they are continuous with reverse coilsf, surrounding the rod H, held on slide-bar, as has been explained, andat their central portion looped about the frame D, all so thatelasticity and spring are imparted thereby to the arms to resist strainor tension thereon. v

The chin-bands may be made of cloth or other like or suitable materialand the band Badapted to cross the front and the band 0 to cross underand both to extend around on each side of the chin, and at theiropposite ends they are fastened in any suitable manner to the cranloarmsG G pivoted, as described, to the upper ends of the side springarms.

In the practical use of the device explained the chin-bands serve tohold the chin firmly yet yieldingly against movement, and thereby themouth held from opening and so snoring is prevented, it being Very wellknown that snoring results from an opening and consequent breathingthrough the mouth instead of through the nostrils. The connection ofthese chin-bands with the neckband A, which has been described, plainlyallows perfect freedom of movement of the device should strain come onit in any direction because of -changes in position of the head or bodyof the wearer while sleeping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

The combination, with a neckband A and front and under chin-bands B O,of a frame D, hung on opposite sides of and projected from saidneckband, a slide E, held on and In testimony whereof I have hereuntoset free to move along said frame D, and springmy hand in the presenceof two subscribing arms F F, held on and projected from oppowitnesses.site end portions of said slide E and having I 5 said chin-bandsattached to theironter ends, -\Virnesses:

substantially as described, for the purpose ALBERT \V. BROWN, specified.FRANcEs M. BROWN.

LINUS Il. SIT/UV.

